What’s the Ninja Slug Got to Do With Love?

The Ninja Slug, one of National Geographic’s Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010 is given its name due to one of its mating behaviors. Specifically, they apparently shoot hormone-laced “love darts” to their mate, kind of like Cupid’s arrows. Or so says Nat Geo.

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Dr. Debby Herbenick is a sex researcher at Indiana University, sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute, columnist, and author of five books about sex and love. Learn more about her work at www.sexualhealth.indiana.edu.

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As regular MSP readers will know, I love learning about the fascinating (and sometimes hilarious) sex lives of Australian fauna. Multi-vaginated kangaroos and chlamydia-ridden koalas have a new companion in MSP’s catalog of interesting antipodean animals: the Australian dumpling squid. [...]

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